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Create your EquipboardKeyboards and Synthesizers 27
Upgraded with Vecoven's 3.x firmware and PG-800 equipped. Simply outstanding.
In my studio I can include two Roland PG-800. This programmer is used to edit, respectively, JX-10 and MKS-70 patches.
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A little marvel enclosed in tiny dimensons. Well sounding, powerful although the lack of song mode to put patterns in sequence is unforgivable. Roland, please, upgrade its firmware!
Another under appreciated musical instruments from the nineties.
The powerfulness of Z-Plane filters, although the internal WaveROM is quite small - 8MBs - allows to create lush and strange timbres, useful for sound resarch, electronica and soundtrack genres.
Perhaps this is one of the most misunderstoood and under appreciated synthesizer Yamaha has ever built.
If FM syntesis is complicated and hard to carry out with just 6 operators, let's imagine what might happen with 8 voiced and 8 unvoiced operators.
FS1R is a real power, but almost impossible to operate with its tiny display. Formant synthesis is a great thing, useful to create particular sound textures impossible to reproduce with other synth engines.
Without an editor with graphical interface FS1R can't be managed. Period.
2 PLG150-AN installed - one coming from S90ES, the other bought S/H like new
PLG150-AN and PLG150-VL installed - the first bought from an Italian seller, the latter off eBay Japan, s/h like new.
Bought new in 1992 after I had traded Yamaha DX7mkI few years before to buy a Fostex A-80 and 450, respectively reel to reel 8 track 1/4 tape recorder and 8:4:2 mixer.
With Opcode Galaxy plus Editors I succeeded converting old DX7mkI patches into TG77 ones and the better clarity of converters added a crisp to the sound I've just imagined with the former synthesizer.
In 1993 I bought a second hand D-50 but its keyboard was completely without aftertouch and dynamics was quite hard to manage. On one hand I was fascinated by its timbre on the other hand I realized that the instrument was really a crap and only when driven by an external keyboard I obtained the sounds I had in mind. Thus after almost six/eight months of suffering I gave it away to a musician who used it as an expander.
Several years after, Roland had this great idea to reissue a great classic synthesizer such as D-50, in a more compact size. The sound is unmistakably the same.
Equipped with:
SRX03-Studio SRX Exp. Board
SRX04-Symphhonique Strings Exp. Board
SRX06-Complete Orchestra Exp. Board
SRX07-Ultimate Keys Exp. Board
SRX09-World Collection Exp. Board
SRX11-Complete Piano Exp. Board
Equipped with:
SR-JV80-01 Pop
SR-JV80-02 Orchestral 1
SR-JV80-04 Vintage Synth
SR-JV80-07 Super Sound Set
SR-JV80-09 Session
SR-JV80-10 Bass&Drum
SR-JV80-11 Techno
SR-JV80-16 Orchestral 2
In my studio I can include two Wavestation A/D with the following PCM Cards
WSC-1S Piano
WSC-2S Drums & Percussion
WSC-3S Synth & Time Slice
and countless banks in sys-ex format
Effects Pedals 3
Impossible to destoy... I have a couple of them. The first one accompained Yamaha S90ES, bought in 2005, and it still rocks as if it were new.
I have also a couple of them. FC-7 is one of the best expression pedals I've ever used. It's progressive and lets you managing controllers excursions the best way... Nonetheless it's very solid and sturdy.
I bought MS-70 CDR hoping it would substitute Strymon Big Sky, but I was wrong. All in all this stompbox effect has a great price quality ratio, but it's light years from Big Sky.
Studio Equipment 19
In my studio I can include two lexicon MX-400. Normally they are uniquely used to process Roland JX-10 and MKS-70 synth tones.
My studio can include Midisport 8x8s to create a complex system with other MIDI Interfaces such as 3 Midi Express 128, 4x4 Anniversary Edition, 4x4 Legacy and 2x2 Legacy.
Used s/h for a fair price. I wouldn't buy again. Quite disappointed by its microphone preamplifiers, expecially when trying to record line signals from analog devices. In particular, recording a Roland JX-10 was a pain in the ass... It's better having more background noise and a good overal sound or a weaker signal that must be normalized then?
My studio can include 2 8Pre both bought new. They are respectively hooked to either 828mk3 FW via optical cables, to create a single 32 mono channels system.
My studio can include 2 828mk3 FW. The first bought new, the latter s/h in good conditions.
My studio can include 3 Midi Express 128 to create a complex system with other MIDI Interfaces such as Midisport 8x8s, 4x4 Anniversary Edition, 4x4 Legacy and 2x2 Legacy.
Used mainly to feed the vocoder section of my mini synthezizers: JD-Xi and Mininova and have free hands.
Used as submixer's submixer. The audio chain is made up 2 MotU 828mk3 and 2 Pre, Yamaha 01v+MY-8AD-24 (submixer hooked to the first 828mk3 via SPDIF).
MX-822 uses a couple of audio ins from MY-8AD-24.
To save space I installed Orchestral ROM 1 & 2, thus It's like having a Virtuoso inside Proteus2000.
Software Plugins and VSTs 22
This wonderful expansion board is installed respectively in a Roland JV-2080 and a Roland JD-990.
Althoug bought with great expectations, I found this software package quite disappointing. Several GB of samples, but not everything of pristine quality.
Headphones 4
DAWs 2
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Microphones 1
This bare bones microphone is not use for singing but for vocoding with Wavestation A/D, JD-Xi and Mininova. It was substituted by Audio Technica Pro 8 HEx.
Other Gear 7
In my studio, to connect all the gear I had to provide 6 Adam Hall 87471
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